Valère Novarina

looked for alternative outlets for creative ideas in television and cinema. For the moment, the director and the scénographe are firmly in charge and no broad-based challenge to creation-by-committee has yet been mounted by those, like Vinaver or Valère Novarina (b. 1942), who call for a return to a theatre of authors and the restoration of the text. Fiction In the literary hierarchy of the nineteenth century, fiction was long ranked below poetry and theatre. During the twentieth, it not only displaced